"Basically worthless unless it's in an airtight container." Man sparks debate after discovering unconventional method for ...

Although silica beads are not gems, the porous mineral does come from the ground. ... Glass production uses up another roughly 10 percent. “Recently, [the US has] ...

Oh, and if you want another example of the astronomical ambition of Silica, currently a single one of the project’s quartz glass plates can hold a copy of War and Peace (wait for it) 875,000 times.

Environment Arctic geoengineering project shut down over danger to wildlife. The non-profit Arctic Ice Project was experimenting with using silica beads to slow ice melt in the Arctic, but tests ...

Most three-dimensional glass objects are produced via either a molding, blowing or 3D-printing process. Chinese scientists, ... throughout which silica beads were suspended.

Microsoft's Project Silica that uses glass as storage is now promoted as a cloud storage solution Safely store data for up to 10,000 years By Shawn Knight October 17, 2023, 11:02.